The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-07-15

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dulge in 5 centers, saving money at the
expense of qualification, but the Celest:als
will have none but the best. had often
seen laundry nabobs smoking silky threads
of Chinese tobacco in elaborate water pipes,
but the indulgence was fit only for those
who were abnormally fond Of work but pos
sessed Of plenty of leisure, for such pipes
have to be loaded and lighted at every puff,
holding as they do only minute quantity
of tobacco. The Chinese in this city are not
cheap lauorers. They dress well, probably
eat well, are honest and peaceable, fight
only when they are attacked and then give
ssd ass have only 0e one
fault, il that be a fault-they work
as hard as newspaper men.
They gamble also, al SO do 80 per cent. OF
the white men around them.
The question of blood il always an i'm
portant one in the ''city of Collins and
O'Brien.' Race prejudices, unluckily for
the city, are easily stirred, and are always
powerful in city politics. This is due to the
fact that nearly half the population was
born on foreign soil and has not thoroughly
learned the American lesson of mutual
liberation. The city is growing 'cosmo-
politan" very rapidly; the change within
five years has been startling. The immi-
grants from Italy and Ireland are not the
most numerous now, but they are the peo-
pie who stay here, the bulk of the 4nmi-
grants Of other races passing on to other
parts.
An interesting controversy is going on
between the Beacon, the Back Bay q
favorite weekly, and The Pilot, Boyle
O'Reilly's mouthpiece, as to whether Irish
Americans are really SO plenty here as to
be entitled to the almost exclusive control
they have of city affairs. .la.s b.
The Pilot claims that at least half the
population is of Irish blood. Alderman
Billy Carroll insists that 60 per cent. is
Irish. The Beacon puts the case this way:
'In 1880 the population of Boston was
1862, $50, including "a, 1913 natives of Ireland,
or 17.9 per cent In the same year Boston
had 1859 persons of Irish parentage,
making less than 81. 5 per cent of the whole.
If we add half the number of those who
had only Irish fathers or only Irish mothers
the whole number of this character was
17,940-we get total Irish element of IA,
96l persons, being 1913 per cent. of the
whole population. From 1880, when the
Irish population was 17.9 Of the whole, tide
clined to 1873 per cent. of the whole in
1885, when Of our total population 1851
per cent. was Of Irish parentage, computing
two persons who have either an Irish father
only or an Irish ansthers only &xs one aIrAkss
man. This does not look like predoIni-
nance or an excess Of Irish blood
in Boston. " sa
euil hall cannot be surrendered to the
Irish element alone; for better or worse the
sentimental and slightly aesthetic hall must
belong to the people Of Boston without re-
spect to their nativity, color, religion, sem
timent and Mr.. Carroll's delightful statis-
tics.' -a
The Beacon claims that the third genera
tion cannot be counted on to fill out the sta
tistics to any extent partly because the
third-generation ancestors were insignificant
in number and partly because of the frightful
rate of mortality among Irish and all other
immigrants and their descendants The ma
tive element is more than holding its own
notwithstanding the food of immigration;
then too the third generation j. SO COM
pletely Americanized as not to deserve the
very honorable name of Irish, German
or French. The bulk of our Irish popula-
tion consists of the sons and daughters of
Irish immigrants
1t is evident from the editorials of the
majority of the Boston papers that there is
q widespread belief that the Almighty takes
vacation whenever the churches close
their doors for the summer or the ministers
m into %1a Tho ovyi1 hnu
is represented as keeping steadily at work,
even when the churches are closed. There
is something mysterious about this news
paper theology. The most positive thing
about it is the strong faith in the industry
of the devil.
We have ninety Latter Day Saints.
They are of the ''reorganized'' kind, and
are aggressive opponents of polygamy.
They have hall on Washington street and
hold Sunday services. One of their elders
states Aheir purpose as being to lead godly,
pure Lies and conform to the teachings of
Jesus Christ as the head of the church.
There is little of the Mormonism of the
Utah stamp about them, though occasion
ally recruits come to them from Salt Lake
City, having become disgusted with the
poly &alAQRS SySUeu. AHey UolIeV0 IN fS-
pentancey baptism by immersion, the
laying 2 on of hands, the resur-
rection of the body, eternal iudy-
ment, and primitive forn 0.
worship. In published epitolne of It's
faith and doctrines, there are the following:
I'VE believe that marriage IS ordained Of
God, and that the law OF provides for
but one companion in WEI. ,ck for either
man or woman, except in cases where the
contract of marriage is broken by death or
We believe that the doc
trines Of plurality and a community of
wives are heresies and opposed to the law of
God.'
The Boston branch was started by six
persons in 1867. There are now zoo Re-
formed Mormons in Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island and Connecticut. The chief church
official is Elder Joseph Smith, son of the
fellow who translated" the book of Nor
mon. He lives in Lamont, Iowa. He has
rs subordinates two councillors, twelve apos-
ties, seventy elders, with priests, teachers
and deacons.
According to law the Puritan sabbath
took up its bed and walked out of this city
Sunday but according to fact the Sunday
was SO closely like those that preceded it
that it would take sharp observer to detect
the difference The newshovs veil lor,der